The Covering Kids & Families local projects communities are Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls. Each of these communities develops and implements specific health insurance outreach strategies under the leadership of the local Covering Kids & Families Coordinators and the statewide Covering Kids & Families Project Director.

The focus of the Pawtucket local project targets outreach to maximize enrollment of parents and their children in RIte Care/RIte Share. netWORKri serves as the lead agency. The strategies include:

· Monitoring the number of families who lose health insurance coverage and the reasons, to improve retention.

The focus of the Central Falls local project is to enroll Latino and other immigrant families and to build a strong network of application assistance sites that have the capacity to help families complete the RIte Care application and recertification process. Progreso Latino serves as the lead agency. The strategies include:

· Advocating for application assistance funding at health centers, hospitals and community based organizations serving limited English proficient clients.

The focus of the Providence local project is to implement outreach, enrollment, and retention strategies in hospitals and other primary health care sites. St. Joseph Hospital for Specialty Care serves as the lead agency for the local project. At this hospital, as well as at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, and Women and Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island, the strategies include: 

· Advocating for application assistance funding at health centers, hospitals and community based organizations.